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Who do you think will review 1st Raven ?
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PowerColor 6970 pictured and benched
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Who do you think will review 1st Raven ?
I'm wondering if the real strength of this gen of cards is Tesselation (?) - then I'm beginning to think about getting a 5870 and overclock it - for now, and then buy the next refresh of cards when they're out - which will be no doubt even faster - and games will be fully using DX11 by then too (I mean most games)
Soldato
Guru3D will probably leak it early for the traffic.
well anybody could do reviews.He's a reviewer perhaps? Or do you think there's an underground way of getting samples from AIBs?
the question is how did he being one and where did he sign up to.
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I miss that Gamer in your sig gareth 
We shall be stocking HIS, Sapphire and XFX for launch, plus some very cheap OcUK cards, aka VTX3D. We might have a handful of Asus too.
However warranty wise we find HIS the best, very fast turnaround, Sapphire are good as well. XFX are OK and the others are just acceptable. Not that it matters as OcUK honour the warranty for the 2yr period anyway.
XFX are about the worst out of that lot, but whats the deal with the XFX warranty for the new cards, are OcUK be covering the claims or might we have to deal with XFX direct ?
You wont be stocking the Powercolor card then ?
Soldato
Maybe he got it from his local tech shop, maybe best buds with the manager. Can't be a reviewer breaking the NDA and all.
It would seem that you are the one who needs to grow up. If people want to warn others that their sig is too large then they can. Some people don't want to see forum friends get infractions...
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It was nothing to do with that
He was trying to hurt my feelings by calling me dense
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Your sig is breaking the rules. I kid you not.
Classic!! the lurkers know everything next time i will keep my nose out
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Well this thread derailed large style...
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Seirrah
Could someone please confirm whether the power connection is made on the 'top' of the card, or at the 'end'. (The 'end' being the panel directly opposite and parallel to the back of the case)
Thanks.
Thanks.
Soldato
Soldato
Power connection is on the top 
Looks like i got an all nighter ahead of me so that eTeknix can get our review up at 5:01am when the embargo lifts
Andy
Looks like i got an all nighter ahead of me so that eTeknix can get our review up at 5:01am when the embargo lifts
Andy
My PSU is an old Enermax Noisetaker 600W. Quite a nice supply, but not modular, and lacking in the number of 6 and 8 pin connections. I have both a 20/24 pin & 8 pin connected to the motherboard (I assume I need both), and I think 1 6 pin connector left. Will there be a problem running any of these new cards with that supply?
Thanks
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Your sig is breaking the rules. I kid you not.
MichaelM said:Hehe you are on 6 lines with Google Chrome!
Yeah yeah, it showed as 4 on my screen!! Changed now ^^
I guess I may have got the wrong end of the stick, and if I did, I appologise.
Soldato
Was the german correct after all?
Soldato
As it turns out - yes. The results from the two Germans seem to fall right in line with what the "official" reviews are reporting: That overall performance is around that of the GTX570, that tessellation performance is greatly improved but still doesn't quite match that of Fermi, and that in certain circumstances (like stalker COP and F1 2010) the 6970 does very well.